Dr Lindsay Knox, Convenor 

I have been an English language teacher and language teacher educator for almost thirty years, working in Greece, Italy, France and the UK. My language teacher educator experience includes both pre-service and in-service work, having been a trainer on both CELTA and Trinity CertTESOL and Trinity Diploma courses. 

I am responsible for in-sessional academic language and literacy courses in the School of Education, and also lecture on the Professional Practice course in the MSc in Language Education.

My recently completed Doctorate in Education focused on the ways in which international postgraduate students studying on language education programmes conceptualise graduate attributes.  

Since 2007, I have worked at the University of Edinburgh where I am the Head of Teacher Development and Scholarship for Languages in the Centre for Open Learning. My responsibilities include designing our year-round CPD programme, as well as managing our pre-sessional recruitment and induction. I also convene our scholarship and publication group which aims to support colleagues to investigate their EAP practice through the development and dissemination of small scholarship projects. 

I have been involved in English as a Foreign Language and EAP teaching and teacher education, including as a CELTA and DELTA trainer for over 30 years, in Istanbul, Turkey, the UK and with the DELTA Online. I started teaching in language schools and then Istanbul University, and worked as a teacher trainer for International Training Institute and the British Council.